The content platform Parse.ly offers a new tool that tracks 10 million articles/month with 3 billion page views/month. This tool gives you free stats about what’s popular every day. The tool is: currents.parsely.com The free version is limited, but still interesting. It gives you the top ten categories. They list the supply (number of articles) …
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A linkblog. Do you remember those before social media? On my spudart.org blog, I had a sidebar of links. The earliest version of my linkbar is on Archive.org from 2002. In that 2002 example, I didn’t have any commentary on each link. The following year, I started to add a little piece of insight about …
Flickr is a great place to find photos to use. Many photographers assign their photos with a Creative Commons license, so any can use the photos. (there are different requirements with this license. Some require attribution. Some don’t allow profit use.) Whenever I see an article using a Flickr image, I almost always click over …
Idea: a script to find Flickr photos being used online Read More »
Have you ever visited a site looking to download something, but then the site is so completely covered with buttons, you don’t know which button to tap. That’s what happened to me today. I’m completely grateful for sites that give free resources for people to download. It’s wonderful. It’s great. It’s the age of the …
When a site has so many buttons, you don’t know what to do. Read More »
Looking to replace iTunes as your podcast app? Downcast is really cool. It has both an iPhone iOS app and a MacOS desktop app. Four reasons to use Downcast as your podcast app: Create your own custom playlists Mobile and desktop syncing Different settings for each device Automatically skip ahead, custom setting for every podcast …
Do you listen to albums? Or maybe you like curated playlists. Or sometimes you might just want to hear an artist, not a specific album, but just the list all the songs by an artist. With the advent of streaming music, I thought the album had been severely diminished. Playlists have hundreds of songs, all …
If you do a Google search that starts with the letters “wp”, Google will automatically bring you to a Wikipedia page. (WP is a shortcode for Wiki Pedia.) Sounds pretty handy, right? Why type out the full word “Wikipedia”? You can just type a shortcode, “WP”. Except it’s not so handy, when you really do …
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I haven’t used iTunes for podcasts in 18 months. Today I relaunched iTunes and was reminded how glad I am that I no longer use it. Oh, the old days when iTunes would stop downloading a podcast because I haven’t listened to any episodes recently. I found myself having to manually update all 90 podcasts …
Imagine every two weeks always having a new book to read. Sounds great, right? You could accomplish this with a subscription to Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Or you could accomplish this with… your local library. I love physical books. I love shelves filled with physical books. I love places with people who love books. Libraries. I …
With so many wonderful podcasts available, we truly live in a golden age of podcasts. I love it. There are thousands of great podcasts out there. Listeners have such a wide range of podcasts to listen to. Podcasts about general topics like current news, sports, health, or finance. Wide selection of topics And then there …